| Topic: | Re:Re:Mandelson To Be Appointed US Ambassador | |
| Posted by: | David Ainsworth | |
| Date/Time: | 20/12/24 11:51:00 |
| "I expect that career diplomats must not be at all impressed." On balance I don't think that this will end well. So I am in favour of it going ahead. (I should point out that my batting average for prediction over the last decade or so has been rather pathetic.) ------------------------------ Major General John Sedgwick was the highest-ranking Union officer to be killed by a sniper during the Civil War. He was killed by a Confederate sharpshooter at the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse on May 9, 1864. Last words: “They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance” |